Charlemont Reports
Generation of 3D tissue constructs for repair of tendon and ligament rupture
02 September 2022Investigating the development of tendons and establish an in vitro cell culture system to explore biological and mechanical aspects required to form functional load-bearing tissue in the adult.
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The social and political world of a British magnate in Ireland: The correspondence and career of Richard Boyle, first earl of Cork, 1634-41
29 August 2022This project sought to investigate documentary material pertaining to the first earl of Cork, Richard Boyle, and his social world, specifically in the 1630s.
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Combining analogue and computational models to investigate lava spine extrusion
17 August 2022A multidisciplinary study that combined analogue modelling, numerical modelling, and remote sensing observations of the 2020 spine extrusion at Shiveluch volcano, Kamchatka.
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Metabolomic analysis of nanocoronas and their impact in ecotoxicity
08 August 2022I visited the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, to use high sensitivity and resolution mass spectrometers to analyze the molecular composition of daphniid conditioned media.
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A systematic review of the Good Behaviour Game literature; Investigating the differences between randomised controlled trials and single case research designs
03 August 2022The main aim of this project was to initiate a systematic review on the Good Behaviour Game, encompassing all of the available published research on the topic.
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‘Feeling Home’: telling a digital sensorial story of medieval Irish houses
25 July 2022In this Charlemont Fellowship, I wanted to develop a way to showcase the complex lives of medieval households by building on the material evidence.
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Irish American Diasporic Exchange 1930-2000
05 July 2022Research was carried out in three locations in the USA (New York Irish Centre, Irish American Museum Albany, Irish Cultural Centre Boston, MA.
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Developing an intervention to reduce natural-disaster related distress
30 June 2022The review findings will inform future collaborative development of perinatal mental health interventions during public health emergencies, including natural disasters and also pandemics.
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Characterising Energy Critical Metal occurrence in the Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits
29 June 2022The main finding of this study is the precise chemical composition of the Irish sulphide ore and carbonate mineral phases tailing samples, which was measured by Electron Probe (EPMA) analysis.
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Family Conflicts: Love and Hate
16 August 2022The key achievements so far are successful data collection, establishing a key research contact in Sweden and disseminating findings to the wider public.
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09 June 2022This funding brought together scholars from various fields to discuss the topic, and proved an excellent step for future collaborations
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Onomastic Perspectives on Literary Landscapes in Medieval Ireland
22 April 2022This project examined how toponyms are presented and etymologized in the longest known narrative tale in medieval Irish, known as Acallam na Senórach.
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08 March 2022Please click download to view a list of the most recent Charlemont Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2023.
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A Four Nations Art History? The G. F. Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905-06
11 March 2022Archival research to consult a wide range of sources relating to the Watts Memorial Exhibition, including a full suite of the exhibition catalogues and associated primary source materials.
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The New Orleans Cotton Exchange and the Role of Private Order Institutions in Market Development
23 March 2022A one week trip to archives of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange.
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Governance in Early Childhood Education and Care: the case of Argentina
22 February 2022In this project, I intended to address the map of ECEC provision in its complexity from a systems perspective.
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The Memorialisation of War in the Work of Otto Dix, 1914-1934
31 December 2021Examining work created by an artist who spent thirty-eight months as a frontline soldier, paying close attention to the socio-political and artistic conditions at the time of the works’ creation.
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An automatic auditory investigation of speech synthesis systems production
03 December 2021The grant was used to finance a visit to the Auditory Engineering Laboratory (AEL) to get the missing knowledge to enable further exploration of synthetic speech using hearing research
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Is Virtual Reality the New Normal? Video Games as a Vehicle for Research, Teaching & Learning
26 November 2021This project explored the use of mainstream video-games as a vehicle for education,
Download Restoring balance between top-down and bottom-up neural pathways – A treatment for chronic tinnitus
26 November 2021The grant funded 10-day visit to the Brai3n neuromodulation clinic in Belgium to establish a collaboration along with Prof. Dirk De Ridder, who is the co-founder and consulting neurosurgeon.
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Mothers Superior: Nuns as Maternal Figures in Spanish Popular Culture (1923 – 1936)
26 November 2021During my research trip I accessed rare film and archival materials that have been key to developing my understanding of perceptions of nuns as mothers in the early decades of the last century.
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Housing and Support for Right-Wing Populism
26 November 2021The research project analyses the effect of rapidly rising costs related to housing and rents on support for right-wing populist parties in advanced industrialized democracies
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Intelligent Planning of Emerging Wireless Technologies in Railway Transportation Systems
25 November 2021Research collaborations have been initiated between UCD and University of Toronto. A joint research paper has been published at an international conference (IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference).
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Geographic variation in hip fracture incidence and care-processes: a comparison between Ireland and Denmark
25 November 2021This research showed that for many indicators of care quality after acute hip fracture, Denmark performs better than Ireland.
Download What can the United Nations War Crimes Commission teach us about the principle universal jurisdiction today?
24 October 2021The project brought together academics from all over the world who work on the topic of the United National war Crimes Commission (1943-48)
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